Thank you for welcoming me.
I do not know hot it is in other countries in Europe but I also appreciate how Germany handles it. In my first career path I already went to university (studies sociology, politics and history) and I really love that I cam in contact with the more theoretical academical approach. But now I want practial experience which I can got with this apprenticeship. Also even though it is a ridiculously small amount I earn a little bit of money while making the apprenticeship instead of having to find a second job or having to use a credit for studying.
I am undecided with the case myself. I don't really like the design of modern gaming case, especially the focus on the flashy RGB. So I am still looking for a subtle case which would look good on my desktop.I may maybe chose the NZXT H310 since it looks more elegant when there is no heavy RGB use in it. I have a thing for older cases as well. I really would love a modern version inspired by the IBM PC 5150.
There is ony keyboard which was like an awakening for me that convinced me in seconds I need to look in the keyboard game and it wasn't even mechanical: The Apple A1048. I came across it in the office, a colleague used it for his Imac and I really loved typing on it. The bulky heavy weight and the profile directly sold me. Since than I layed my hands on a Corsair K70 with MX Reds.
I have to use silent switches in order to neither annoy my girlfriend at home nore colleagues at work. I really like high profile bulky full size keyboards. I would love a modern version of an IBM Model F Unsaver layout (but with normal directional key layout) with ISO layout, silent switches and keycaps feeling like the ones from Apple A1048. This is what I want to build in the long run. Thank you for providing the switch tester url. When building my dream keyboard that really is a good value so I can decide for the best switches.
What consoles do you have? I have: PS1, PSOne, PS2 Slim, PS3, PS4 Pro, PSP 1000, PAL SNES, Wii, Wii U, Nintendo Switch, GB, GBC, several GBA (AGB and several AGS101), DS Lite, New 3DS XL. Also I have a Big Ben Gametab One and an RS97 for emulation. At the moment I am building a Retropie box and I am thinking of getting a newer open source handheld.
That's another part of the problem here. College is literally a money pit here, and then it doesn't guarantee a good job unless you pick a field that's in demand and pays well. With apprenticeships you're making some money instead, and actually getting hands-on experience, which is worth a lot more in most situations if you ask me.
I can't say I have seen anything modern like the 5150, unfortunately. Maybe there are some though, somewhere.
The A1048 is mostly just a standard full-sized rubber dome, isn't it? I do like to see the extra F keys and dedicated media keys. If you want a feel like rubber domes, you may want to look at Topre. I have a 55g Realforce 87U, and I can say that that's the best thing I have ever felt that could be considered to be similar to a standard rubber dome. Topre is also very quiet by nature, even the unsilenced versions.
I love Corsair's K65s and K70s. A very sleek yet industrial aesthetic. I think that's part of what drew me to the XPS 720 and 730 cases to begin with. They compliment a K70 perfectly. Do you mean to say that you consider MX reds to be silent? Cherry actually makes a silent version of them that dampens the slider with rubber. There are plenty of similarly-silenced switches that you could solder into your K70 as well, if you found you liked them. I have some Kailh box silent reds coming in to try, eventually.
There are rubber done unsavers as well. All of the ones I have ever seen have had the ISO enter key:
IBM 73x3832 Quiet TouchYou could remove the rule cap, put the down arrow cap in its place and remap it however you like if you connected it to a Soarer's converter or TMK converter, which converts it to USB. I'm not sure if that would work for you or not though.
I have a PS1, a few PS2 slims, a few PS2 phats, a couple of PS3s, way too many original Xbox consoles including limited editions (1 Crystal Edition, a few Halo Green editions, and a debug kit), a few Xbox 360s and slims including limited editions (1 Halo 3 phat, 1 Halo 4 slim, and a phat dev kit), an XB1 (I mostly got it cheap with shipping damage to mod into an 80s VCR shell for fun, but never finished), a few Sega Genesis variants, a Sega Saturn, a few Sega Dreamcast systems, a Sega Game Gear (I think this requires repair, unfortunately), a GBC (I traded my GBA in for the original Battlefront when it came out), a few NES consoles, a SNES, an N64, a Wii, an Atari 2600, and everything required to power and display all of them, with at least some games and peripherals for each.
I do wish I had an oldschool Gameboy. Retropie is great. I have played around with it before.
